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'The Joel McHale Show' features Fox43 in latest episode on Netflix

Updated March 11, 2018 at 9:42 PM;Posted March 11, 2018 at 5:57 PM

Joel McHale poses for a portrait to promote the film, "A Futile and Stupid Gesture", at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)(Taylor Jewell)

Central Pa. got a shoutout on the March 11 episode of "The Joel McHale Show" on Netflix.

We're not quite sure that's a good thing.

"The Joel McHale Show" is essentially a spinoff of "The Soup," the popular E! Show hosted by McHale from 2004 to 2015. On the show, McHale recaps the week in pop culture and television with snarky commentary.

Fox43 was featured on the episode for a brief they did on York Restaurant Week.

"If you don't think a time-filling nothing segment can get real uncomfortable right from the get-go -- ho ho, you sweet summer child," comedian McHale said to introduce the clip.

The segment opens with anchor Matt Maisel introducing a story with reporter Chris Garrett on the Fox43 morning show. Garrett is at Tutoni's in York about to do a story on wine. Maisel asks Garrett, who is black, "are you a white guy or a red guy?"

Garrett takes a moment to respond, before saying "I'm a white guy, but I do like red too so I guess you could say I go both ways."

McHale cuts the clip at this point.

"Gee thanks a lot for making things awkward and sexual," the comedian jokes. "But let's go back to the matter at hand: 'are you a white guy?'"

As for how the interaction played out in real time at Fox43: "It was like we were chasing the words as they were coming out of our mouths," Maisel said. "We knew as soon as we said it there was some unintentional comedy there."

Maisel went on to describe what it's been like to see the clip go viral. "We laughed about it then. We laugh about it now," he said. "We just never expected it to explode like it did."

The Fox43 bit concludes the episode of "The Joel McHale Show," which also featured McHale making jokes about Japanese television shows, the QVC network and "The Bachelor." There was also a running gag related to movie star Eric Bana.

You can watch "The Joel McHale Show" on Netflix. You can watch the original Fox43 segment in the video below.